December 4, 2024 It is an honor to be invited to be Guest Speaker at Emerson College’s oldest film club , Frames Per Second (FPS). Emerson, the first university to establish a partnership with Premiere, an international film festival distributor, will be giving its film students the opportunity to screen their winning film to an … Continue reading Guest Speaker at the Emerson College “Frames Per Second (FPS)”MiniFest Film Festival. →

September 30, 2024 t was such a joy to give these Northeastern University Urban Planning /Architect students , members of NU Asst Professor of Race, Social Justice and the Built Environment , Dr. Lily Song’s “Anti-Displacement Studio,” a walking tour of Small Businesses in Chinatown. We started with “nai cha” Hong Kong style milk tea … Continue reading Designing and Leading a tour of “Small Businesses in Boston Chinatown “ for the “Anti-Displacement Studio” of Northeastern University, founded by Urban Planning professor, Dr Lily Song of Northeastern University’s Urban Planning Department. →

October 7, 2024 Life is full of ironies . In 1963, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority rammed a highway through my Chinatown home on Hudson Street, displacing 100 Chinese and Syrian immigrant families, affecting 10,000 Chinese.Today, 61 years later, I’m invited to speak at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, on the personal and community impacts … Continue reading Guest Speaker at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center on “The Ramifications & Effects of Highway Building On an Immigrant Community, Boston Chinatown. “ →

October 9, 2024 Today I had the great pleasure of meeting and getting to know Australian architect, Andrea Lam, the winner of the coveted 2023 Christopher Procter Prize for architectural research. Of Cantonese and Vietnamese heritage, her parents settled in Sydney, Australia, where she was born and raised . She arrived in Boston after doing … Continue reading Giving a Boston Chinatown tour for the international “Chinatown Project” of Australian architect, Andrea Lam, winner of the highly coveted Procter Prize for Architecture. →

I am so pleased that Hudson Street Chronicles became the primary research source for the choreography of “Becoming Water,” by the Continuum Dance Project, choreographed by co-directors, Fernadina Chan and Adriane Brayton as part of the Momentum Greenway Dance Program, presented by Amazon, 2023. I recorded a bilingual Taishanese/English voiceover of 12 quotes from my … Continue reading Momentum Greenway Dance Program, Presented by Amazon, 2023 – The Rose Kennedy Greenway →

In creating Joyful Stitch, visual artist and landscape designer Ponnapa Prakkamakul read my essay, “Sky” and my poem, “ My MaMa’s Back” and conducted interviews of myself and other children of garment workers, revealing a thoughtful research process. Thank you very much , Ponnapa Prakkamakul, for your respect for primary sources and your sensitivity to … Continue reading “Sky” : a resource for “Joyful Stitch” →

I received these words in a text message recently on a day when I really needed them. “You have a deeply personal connection to Chinatown and the people from the community. I don’t know it firsthand, but I imagine it’s very frustrating to see someone else misrepresent Chinatown.” “It’s why I really admire your work.” … Continue reading Elegant Words from Elegance Herself →